Show AGAINST BELIEF ONLY A FEW days since we published an article in relation to an expressed intention of officials having charge of immigration matters to prevent the landing at ac american ports of mormons cormons Mor mons coming to this country from europe the ground upon which the proposition to exclude was based was that the latter day saints could be brought under the operation of the anti contract labor law of course it was easy to show that tha such tsuch a pretense was absurd having no foun bation in fact the new york star takes the same position on the subject as aa was assumed by us this will le seen by the following clipped from the columns of that paper the position ascribed to the federal authorities that mormon immigrants must most be prevented from landing on the ground that they are foreign contract laborers raises an extremely serious question the mormons cormons come as converts to a creed which they seek opportunity to practice in this country under the guarantees our constitution holds out for civil and religious liberty can their intention to violate federal or territorial law be assumed merely because of the tenets they have embraced before they have had even an opportunity to orea break kour our statutes statute el there is not nor can there be any law aw in the united states against thief belief in n mormonism or in in any form of doctrine trine true or false our laws deal with the acts act 4 of men not with their thoughts or aspirations the mormon immigrants are neither criminals nor paupers haupers pau pers by what reasoning can the they sTI be construed to be contact ot ct laborer sr that is a very interesting subject upon which a good deal of light must be shed if it be indeed true that the authorities intend to interfere with mormon immigrants the position of the star to is sound on the main question but it indicates that it is slightly behind the times in asserting that there is not nor can there be any law in the united states against belief in mormonism 1 0 or any form of doe trine 11 that is becoming beconi ng an old fashioned proposition gradually becoming obsolete bs olete A fearmon fe ormon can now under color of law because of his religious belief be robbed of his property and deprived of his civil rights and privileges the ab ship I 1 p of state has broken away from her moorings in the harbor of the constitution and to Is drifting out toward the sea of anarchy where she will inevitably encounter a terrific gale of adversity the star should read up on the recent special laws and united states supreme court decisions aimed at the belief of the latter day saints |